ChiGoose

I would be genuinely shocked if that happens. Seems incredibly unlikely.

Does it make you feel good to put words in my mouth? To make things up and attribute them to me? Do you sit at home, thinking about me? Wondering how you can get me to react to you? You seem to be infatuated with me, some random person on the internet you don’t actually know. It’s kinda sad, buddy. I hope you find some meaning in your life, but given the braindead posts you put up here, I’m not sure you could even manage to tie your own shoes to get outside and touch some grass. Be careful you don’t trip on them and fall. If you posted something of value on this site, it’d be a first.

Looking forward to Sinema’s new job at Fox News in 2024.

I don’t know why Comey broke FBI protocol. If were to guess, there were leaks and rumors about the NY office that Rudy was still close to from his time as prosecutor. If Comey felt that the info was going to get out anyway, maybe he was trying to get ahead of it. Still the wrong move.

Also answered by just reading a couple of pages. If you don’t believe me, you could also check out the Senate report, signed off on by chair Marco Rubio. You can’t unring that bell. Hillary had a reputation as a lifelong politician with questionable relationships and had spent most of the campaign under investigation. I’m not sure how much Comey clearing her actually mattered to the public. It certainly didn’t sway most of PPP.

I did not say that. Russians ran an influence operation and the Trump campaign welcomed it and sometimes cooperated. How effective it actually was is up for debate. If there was a solitary thing that changed the outcome (and I’m not sure there was), it’d be James Comey violating FBI protocol a few days before the election to announce another Clinton investigation.

This is helpful, because by any reasonable understanding, members of the Trump campaign did collude with Russians. Anyone capable of reading a couple of pages and a table of contents understands this. So when we see people saying otherwise, we can discount their opinions as uninformed.

This requires a considerable amount of cooperation, strategic planning, and competence from the left that I’ve yet to see actually exist.

My takeaway is that most of the people on this thread have terminal online brain, don’t understand how things work, and eagerly jump on anything that makes them feel good or smart. I don’t want to defend Twitter. Twitter has problems, all social media sites do, but I’m hardly convinced by people being outraged that a political campaign (not the government) flagged non-consensual sexual content for review. Content moderation is hard and everybody is going to screw it up, no matter how hard they try not to. But maybe the reason that conservatives tend to face moderation more is simply because they’re just lying more.

I mean, you’re not seeing that. You’re just seeing a company trying to figure out content moderation and making mistakes. But the fever swamps will see what they want to see because the only reason they aren’t recognized for their obvious greatness must be because powerful forces are working against them.

Our diverse military is currently helping Ukraine beat the ever loving piss out of the super manly Russian army that Ted Cruz loves so much. You're on the wrong thread, BTW. All of your Putin bootlicking comrades are in the Ukraine thread.

Yes, it’ll be released.

My point was that nuking a story is worse than allowing it but not amplifying it. I made no claims about the quality of the fact checking itself as it was irrelevant to the point I was making. You did the whole “just asking questions” cowardly BS about the vetting instead of just expressing your own position, and then pretended it was a good faith debate instead of just the childish exercise in trolling that it was.

There is no fool-proof form of content moderation. Every system is going to have flaws. I said I think it’s better not to delete or block things while they are being vetted. You decided to be a troll about it. That’s not a debate, it’s just performative assholery.

No, I was saying that allowing the posting of links while they are being vetted is better than completely nuking the links. But you knew that, you’re just being a troll. That, or you can’t read. Thanks.

Dunno I don’t work at Facebook. What are they?

According to TechDirt, Facebook’s policy when something is flagged as a potential misinfo op is to allow it to be shared but not to boost it through the algorithm until Facebook’s internal fact checkers had reviewed it.

Well then it’s a good thing that Taibbi stated that the government didn’t request the items to be taken down! Also, what your call gobbledygook is what most people call facts and logic. But I’m not surprised you had difficulty parsing it.

The article points out the Facebook’s policy in similar situations is to allow the posting of the link but not boost it through algorithms until it’s vetted. That seems way better than Twitter’s nuking policy.

Yes, Taibbi explicitly states that there was no evidence of government involvement. Basically, Twitter had a really bad moderation policy (nuke suspicious info until it’s vetted) were warned about potential election interference by the FBI, and when they saw the laptop story, they invoked their (bad) policy. This immediately backfired due to the Streisand Effect and was such a bad call that not only did a prominent Dem Congressman reach out to them to say blocking the story was bad, but they ended up reversing course within a day.

If anyone is interested in what really was happening with Twitter and the Hunter Biden story, this is the best explainer.

As we saw in the other midterm races, normie Republicans did fairly well while Trump republicans were soundly rejected. Any chance the GOP takes a lesson from that or do they go back to the well for Trumpism?

Most of the outstanding vote count is in the Atlanta area. Warnock is going to end up winning by around 3 points.

I agree that Fetterman isn’t recovered. I don’t think that’s a surprise. My point is that this is something someone can recover from while many on the board are acting like he’s brain dead. I’m also happy to hear you were able to recovery from your stroke and I’m sorry to hear you had to go through that.

Oh good. Let’s weaken our military because of a bunch of little babies. They already have to get something like a dozen vaccinations to join up. But the poor snowflakes are drawing the line at COVID?